BEYOND HEALING

An Interview with L. Ayu Saraswati, author of Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain 1. In Scarred, you describe your journey traveling to twenty countries in just over a year…. READ MORE

Banner that reads "To Have Equal Pay, We Need Equal Parental Leave. An Excerpt from Fixing Parental Leave: The Six Month Solution by Gayle Kaufman." In the background, a team of people stack their hands together. An image of the book cover, featuring traffic lights with baby bottles on them in front of a light blue background.

To Have Equal Pay, We Need Equal Parental Leave

An Excerpt From Fixing Parental Leave: The Six Month Solution by Gayle Kaufman Parental leave may result in lower wages. There is plenty of evidence that mothers experience a wage… READ MORE

5 Books to Read During Ramadan

Join us as we celebrate Ramadan by exploring the diverse experiences of Muslim life. These titles offer a variety of perspectives, exploring Islam and its subcultures through lenses of gender,… READ MORE

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I Write the Yawning Void: An Internationally Acclaimed Author Speaks on Writing and Representation

Excerpted from I Write the Yawning Void: Selected Essays of Sindiwe Magona by Sindiwe Magona, published by Wits University Press I can’t believe I have been writing for more than… READ MORE

Inside the Police Academy: An Interview with Samantha J. Simon

Inside the Police Academy

An Interview with Samantha J. Simon, author of Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence You spent a year researching this book at four large, municipal police departments… READ MORE

Finding Faith on the Internet

April 3, 2011

Robert Glenn Howard, author of Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet, was interviewed by Fox News about the increasing numbers of people who… READ MORE

The Times Book Review is Torture?

March 28, 2011

Anis Shivani, a champion of university presses and one of the most badass commentators on the publishing industry as a whole, wrote a scorching condemnation today of the New York… READ MORE

Times Literary Supplement Learns about Gallatin

March 26, 2011

The 3/25 Times Literary Supplement delves into Nicholas Dungan’s critically acclaimed Gallatin: America’s Swiss Founding Father. The full article isn’t online, but here’s an excerpt: Dungan’s Book retraces in detail… READ MORE

The Atlantic: Leave Those Kids Alone

March 15, 2011

The Atlantic’s Christina Schwarz writes a spirited defense of letting children off the lease based on Howard Chudacoff’s Children at Play. Can it be true that children no longer know… READ MORE

NYU Press Leads New University Press E-Book Initiative

March 11, 2011

Two major university press e-book initiatives—Project MUSE Editions (PME) and the University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC)—have joined forces. The result of this merger—the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC)—will launch January… READ MORE